*This decree is [[Educational Decree Number Sixty-Eight]] in the [[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)|film adaptation]] of ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'', as in said film adaptation the Ministry passed many more [[Educational Decree]]s than in the novels.

*This decree is [[Educational Decree Number Sixty-Eight]] in the [[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)|film adaptation]] of ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'', as in said film adaptation the Ministry passed many more [[Educational Decree]]s than in the novels.

**As such the message is also different:

**As such the message is also different:

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''ALL STUDENT ORGANISATIONS''<br />

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<center>''ALL STUDENT ORGANISATIONS''<br />

''ARE HENCEFORTH''<br />

''ARE HENCEFORTH''<br />

''DISBANDED''<br />

''DISBANDED''<br />

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''noncompliance''<br />

''noncompliance''<br />

''WILL BE''<br />

''WILL BE''<br />

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''EXPELLED''<br />

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''EXPELLED''<br /></center>

==Appearances==

==Appearances==

Revision as of 06:50, December 17, 2012

"All Student Organisations, Societies, Teams, Groups, and Clubs are henceforth disbanded. An Organisation, Society, Team, Group, or Club is hereby defined as a regular meeting of three or more students. Permission to re-form may be sought from the High Inquisitor (Professor Umbridge). No Student Organisation, Society, Team, Group, or Club may exist without the knowledge and approval of the High Inquisitor. Any student found to have formed, or to belong to, an Organisation, Society, Team, Group, or Club that has not been approved by the High Inquisitor will be expelled."

Creation

After hearing about the defensive magic organisation, Dolores Umbridge used her power as Hogwarts High Inquisitor to pass this Educational Decree on 7 October1995, which forbade the regular meeting of three or more students without the High Inquisitor's consent. Any student found to be in noncompliance of the Decree was to be expelled immediately.[1]

Reaction

This Educational Decree disbanded all of the student organisations, like the Gobstones club and Quidditch teams. As such, there was initially some disapprovement from the student body, but as Umbridge eventually reformed said organisations, the main student body was not very affected by it. However, the members of Dumbledore's Army became upset and speculated that someone had told Umbridge about the meeting.[1] Regardless, they formed the group and secretly trained themselves in Defence. Eventually, Marietta Edgecombe betrayed the group, and Umbridge attempted to use this decree to expel all the members of the Army, which failed as Dumbledore took the blame for its formation, and said that the night they were caught was supposed to be the first meetings, as opposed to them happening for six months.